Tag: North Carolina
McCrory’s HB 2 Draws Rebuke from American Academy of Pediatrics; AAP Calls for Repeal of Harmful Law
Today, the Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, called on North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory and state lawmakers to heed a warning from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) about the dangers HB 2 poses to youth across the state.
100K has read transgender Skye Thomson letter, but has Gov. Pat McCrory?
Since the release of Skye Thomson heartbreaking letter to North Carolina’s Gov. Pat McCrory over 100k has read it, but has he read Skye’s letter ? does McCrory care at all ?
Deja Vu: Pat McCrory Echoes Disastrous Pence-style Defence of Anti-LGBT Laws on Meet the Press
Pat McCrory says he will not repeal HB 2’s attack on transgender equality.
9th Grade Transgender Boy Writes Heartbreaking Letter to N.C. Governor
The boy, Skye Thomson, sent it to the governor today and the National Center for Transgender Equality posted it on Twitter and Facebook moments ago.
Additional Companies Call for Repeal of HB 2, Despite NC Gov McCrory’s Executive Order
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, and Equality NC, the state organisation working to secure equal rights and justice for LGBT North Carolinians, announced that executives from the American Express Company, AXA Financial Inc., Bloomberg L.P. ,Capital One, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, Campbell Soup Company, CohnReznick LLP, CrowdRise, eMaint Enterprises, LLC, Ernst & Young LLP, the Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., John Hancock Financial, Kohler Co., Logitech, Plum Organics, RBC Capital Markets, REI, Strava Inc., The Hartford, Time Warner Cable, United Airlines, Visa Inc. and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. have signed onto an open letter that now includes more than 160 leading CEOs and business leaders urging Governor Pat McCrory and the North Carolina General Assembly to repeal the radical provisions in the deeply discriminatory law that was rammed through the legislature on March 23rd. These companies are continuing their support after Governor McCrory announced an executive order that does nothing to fix the discriminatory provisions signed into law through HB 2.
Tenn. AG Warns That State Will Lose Federal Funding Over Bills Attacking Trans Students
State legislation mirrors outrageous provisions in North Carolina law that has drawn widespread condemnation, and South Dakota bill vetoed last month.